Two years ago the former Arapahoe County sheriff was sentenced to a mere 30 days in jail for plying young men with methamphetamine in return for sexual favors. This wrist-slap was imposed despite the fact that he had effectively encouraged drug addiction and lawbreaking among his sexual partners and thus betrayed everything he had stood for when he wore a badge.

Now we learn that Sullivan, nearing the end of his two years of probation, has refused to stay off of intoxicants himself. He failed a screening test for drugs, The Denver Post’s Kieran Nicholson reported, in what was “at least his second probation violation.”

For this defiance, he and his probation officer “agreed to extend his probationary period for three months.”

Three months. Yes, that will teach him to obey court orders.

At 71, Sullivan is a sorry case, a shocking example of a respected figure who threw away everything in pursuit of sordid transactions.

Many were not surprised by the prompt verdict Monday in the sexual-assault case in Denver involving Taylor Swift. A jury of six women and two men concluded within hours that a Denver radio host had groped Swift _ grabbed her butt beneath her skirt during a photo shoot, as his wife stood on the other side of Swift.

Touch not that statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville. Let it stand, but around it place plaques telling the curious that the man was a traitor to his country who went to war so white people could continue to own black people.